On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 12:24:26PM +0200, Gonéri Le Bouder wrote: > Hello, > > The vdrift upstream uploaded a data tarball with some content licensed under > the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.5 license. > > After discution there are agree to relicense these files under GNU GPL > but the tarball is quite udge (> 200M) and so I think it should provably > be easier to publish a notification on the website. >
Notes in the README.Debian and any relevant docs directory would help. A copy of their email would also be useful in there. This sort of thing would actually be useful in DWN. "$foo data relicensed to GPL" If the project is relatively fast moving and vdrift is in etch, it might be a good idea to package it with the tarball updated to reflect the licence change for etch r1 whenever that occurs and ask for it to be put into stable-proposed-updates. This would cover all bases: anyone who had got vdrift from r0 would be made aware: anyone who installed from r1 onwards would automatically get the changed licence terms. Any lenny / sid package would just be packaged with the new licence. > My question is: in the debian/copyright, is it possible to refere to a > license that is on a website or in an archived mailing list. > I don't think that's adequate, unfortunately. What if I install from CD and have no 'Net access? > Best regards, > > Gonéri All best, Andy